Catholic and Royal Army

The Catholic and Royal Army was a force of three royalist armies in western France that was active from 1793 to 1800 during the War in the Vendee and the French Revolutionary Wars. The three armies were simply groups of fluctuating insurgents led by chiefs, and two-thirds of its members were peasants; the rest were artisans and shopkeepers. The Catholic and Royal Army lacked health services and only had temporary fighters, including republican deserters, Germans, or Swiss. The Catholic and Royal Army would later have branches in Brittany (the Chouans) and in Normandy, but all of these were crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte's forces by 1800.